Originally posted by Styrbiorn
Nope, Lützen wasn't a draw, not if you look at it from the pure military point of view.
Breitenfeld smashed the emperors plans of consolidating his conquests and creation of a pure Catholic Empire, while Jankau hurried the peace, Wittstock forced the Imperial invasion army under Gallas in France to come back etc. I was just talking about the battles, not the strategical effects they made anyway. 
BTW, only fancy dressed mercenaries (Scots ) faught on the Swedish side at Nördlingen.
Naw Lutzen was a draw, the smashing of the old blue brigade and deat of Gustavus, the royal Swedish army would never be the same.
As for the Socttish mercenaries its hardly our fault that we had the best dress sense in Europe. in no other European country can a man wear a skirt and not be stigmatised as a transvestite.
